Amtrak Coast to Coast Part 2 California Zephyr #5 Chicago Emeryville 2 8 2020 2 UHD 4k

[@michaelneff5293]

Amazing video. I've been from SLC to Denver via the Zephyr. Beautiful trip.

[@leftybass5860]

Going Washington DC to SLC next week. Let the adventure begin.

[@coleallen3895]

Once while I was on the CZ riding in a sleeping car, I observed a live birth take place on the train, I’m not joking. Back in late March 2019, I was on the California Zephyr going from Davis to Glenwood Springs and on the train, there was pregnant 19 year old girl from SFSU traveling from Emeryville to Denver with her boyfriend. They normally fly home from college for holidays/breaks but because their due date was close (due date was April 5th and they departed on March 29th), they had to use the train since airlines do not allow women to fly in the last 6 weeks of pregnancy. During the ride at 1 AM, the girl’s water broke and the attendant for our sleeping car (Justin Woods, a young guy in his early 20s) volunteered to deliver the baby since he had seen how it was done online. The girl agreed and Justin did so in which he went into the first aid kit, got his gloves on, then squeezed himself into the roomette to have the girl push while he caught the baby when she was born. The baby ended up being born on the train - a healthy baby girl in a ROOMETTE!!! It was a fabulous story and the girl, her newborn and boyfriend were taken off the train by paramedics at the next railroad crossing (train was in a remote location between Elko and Salt Lake City at the moment which required a helicopter ambulance to meet the train). As it is, I observed the whole thing as I was holding the girl’s left leg as well as recording this with her boyfriend’s phone. I’ve wondered - if you are female, suppose this happened to you where you (or your wife/girlfriend) suddenly went into labor on an Amtrak train and the train was going across a remote location at the moment. Would you at all be able to tolerate giving birth unmediated, while crammed into a Roomette, on a bed that was not flexible (unlike in the hospital), on a train that speeding up to 90 MPH, the baby’s umbilical cord having to stay attached to you until you got to a hospital (no scissors/clamps on the train), and the person delivering your baby is an Amtrak conductor/attendant with no medical training or license of any kind??? Seriously, this girl was incredibly brave and was lucky that there were no complications, PLUS it only took 20 minutes for her to push the baby out (water broke at 1 AM, and the baby was born at 1:22 AM) What do you think of all this!!!???

[@DOSBoxMom]

Was that a motorized cart you were able to ride out to the platform? That would be nice to have available some years hence when my husband and I retire and have the time to take long train journeys ourselves! (But maybe not so much the stamina to walk all the way from the Metropolitan Lounge out to the platform where our train would be, dragging our luggage with us.)

[@RodBourne]

The carts were waiting outside the Metropolitan Lounge when the train was called... I can't walk long distances so it was great for me.... the porter even took our luggage to our bedroom without being asked.

[@RodBourne]

The carts are waiting outside the Metropolitan Lounge to take you to your train if you need one. The attendant even took our luggage up to our bedroom without being asked...

[@DOSBoxMom]

@@RodBourne How nice! I get out of breath easily when walking long distances (I am very much out of shape), so carts like that would be fantastic for my husband and me at a large train station!